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13966 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad as "die Sonne" -- rank: 1000

Sean Johnson Andrews wrote: >Better question: is there any evidence that Fidel is an lbo-talk subscriber? no one in the .cu domain, but maybe he reads the archives

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Date:	Fri May 12 14:02:35 PDT 2006

13967 [lbo-talk] further evidence of the decline of men -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 7, 2006 Cupid's Broken Arrow Performance Anxiety and Substance Abuse Figure Into the Increase in Reports of Impotence on Campus By Laura Sessions Stepp Washington Post Staff Writer Adam Skrodzki, a tall, redheaded senior at the University of Maryland, bench-presses a respectable 280 pounds. He fights fires in Howard County as a volunteer and plans to join the Secret Service in the fall. In short, he's a man's man. Or so he thought until last fall, when he hooked up with a s ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 13:54:20 PDT 2006

13968 [lbo-talk] manna for catastrophists -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields wrote: >Bridgewater's Ray Dalio is a seriously smart guy, and >organization's at least as impressive. He basically >demands that everybody challenge everybody's ideas at >every step. That doctrinaire Pimco mindset is totally >absent. I'd listen to anything he's got to say. Yup. I used to talk with him now & then and was always impressed. They do serious long-term work, which is really unusual in this game (cf. Ed Hyman). Doug

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Date:	Fri May 12 13:32:56 PDT 2006

13969 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad gossip -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 11, 2006 THE SUITE LIFE REMEMBER "the dictator in designer glasses?" That's what we dubbed Nicaraguan strongman Daniel Ortega after the Marxist was caught spending big at Cohen's Fashion Optical during a 1985 visit to New York. Now we hear Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sleeping in the $3,500-a-night presidential suite at the Hotel Mulia in Jakarta during his three-day visit to Indonesia. The nukes-mad U.S and Israel hater, who drives an old Peu ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 13:31:28 PDT 2006

13970 [lbo-talk] Kinky Friedman running! -- rank: 1000

Sean Johnson Andrews wrote: >>>FRIEDMAN: I think this is a place above politics. It's above the >>>governor. I'm -- I want to knock down the windmill of politics as >>>usual, OK? I want to do it like Rosa Parks (search) had a big >>>enemy, segregation. >> >>My god, keeping out immigrants with fences and the national guard >>makes him Rosa Parks? He should stick with dumbass music. >> >>Doug > >He probably should stick to dum ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 12:23:24 PDT 2006

13971 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad as "die Sonne" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Fidel, you ought to have that talk >with Ahmadinejad ASAP and bring the man to senses! Is there any evidence that Ahmadinejad has socialist/internationalist leanings? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 12 11:38:56 PDT 2006

13972 [lbo-talk] small biz opposition to minwage hike evaporating -- rank: 1000

May 09, 2006 Minimum Wage Has No Impact on Small Business Wells Fargo-Gallup Small Business Index shows nearly half support increasing the minimum wage by Dennis Jacobe PRINCETON, NJ -- The federal minimum wage was last increased nearly a decade ago and remains at its 1997 level of $5.15 an hour. Recently, however, Arkansas became the 20th state to raise its own state minimum wage above the federal minimum wage. Given the relatively stagnant wages of low-income workers during recent years and th ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 11:28:44 PDT 2006

13973 [lbo-talk] Uncle Lou Proyect on 'Giuliani Time' -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>... "Giuliani Time" ... >>includes an interview with the good Doug Henwood > >Excellent. The other DH is a bummer :) "He only comes out when I drink my gin..." Saw the movie last night - and I was pretty good! And the rest of the film is very good. Even if you lived in NYC during the Rudy years, you may not have fully appreciated what a prick he is. There's an amazing scene where Rudy insults a caller to his radio show - makes fun of hi ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 06:09:35 PDT 2006

13974 [lbo-talk] manna for catastrophists -- rank: 1000

ON WATCH FOR THE NEXT LTCM By Peter Brimelow 12:01 AM ET May 11, 2006 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- All eyes are on the Fed, and one respected institutional service thinks there are reasons to dislike what they're seeing. It's nearly eight years since the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund cratered. At that time, the Federal Reserve engineered an extraordinary bailout on the (highly debatable) theory that the financial markets would otherwise be fatally disrupted. What would happen if there was ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 11:24:52 PDT 2006

13975 [lbo-talk] Phillips on the schmucks -- rank: 1000

[from John Judis' piece in The New Republic on the evolution of Kevin Phillips] <http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060522&s=judis052206&c=3> Admittedly, even at the height of his populist fervor, Phillips had shown signs of distaste for certain aspects of middle-class culture. Explaining during the 1968 campaign why a Nixon endorsement by actor John Wayne would go over well among Southern voters, Phillips told reporter Joe McGinniss, "Wayne might sound bad to people in New York ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 11:21:07 PDT 2006

13976 [lbo-talk] NYT pans "Giuliani Time" -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Rudy he stink real bad but this is a good question: > > > >Quoth Scott: "Left unexamined is how the Democratic Party, with its >overwhelming demographic and institutional advantages in New York, has >managed to lose four mayoral elections in a row. True, and the movie is way too soft on the Dems. But Bloomberg was a lifelong Democrat until he ran for mayor, and on the substantial questions, any plausible Dem wouldn't be much different. In fact it ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 11:14:57 PDT 2006

13977 [lbo-talk] Kinky Friedman running! -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >FRIEDMAN: I think this is a place above politics. It's above the >governor. I'm -- I want to knock down the windmill of politics as >usual, OK? I want to do it like Rosa Parks (search) had a big enemy, >segregation. My god, keeping out immigrants with fences and the national guard makes him Rosa Parks? He should stick with dumbass music. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 12 11:09:35 PDT 2006

13978 [lbo-talk] Plain Text Please, was Re: Contradictions: Justin does not trump Gianni Vattimo -Gay-Catholic-Communist-Heideggerian -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Plain text is so much easier to handle in >general than html/richtext/whatever. Please please please plain text please. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 12 11:06:09 PDT 2006

13979 [lbo-talk] Speaking of the Bahai: Profile in Al-Ahram -- rank: 1000

[bounced because HTML coding pushed it over the length limit - 9k plain text = 23k HTML] From: Joel Schalit <managingeditor at tikkun.org> Subject: Speaking of the Bahai: Profile in Al-Ahram Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 07:55:12 -0700 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org <http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/794/eg6.htm> The others A court ruling providing official recognition to Bahais has done little to ease the debate on this Israeli-based cult. Gihan Shahine reports on its followers and their belie ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 11:04:38 PDT 2006

13980 [lbo-talk] the new Gore -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Stay and Fight: A 2000 Flashback: With "An Inconvenient Truth" about to be released, speculation is rampant in Washington about Al Gore's 2008 plans. Many Democrats are excited about the thought of the "new Al Gore," the post-2000 Gore, the Gore who goes around the media, says what he thinks, and lets the chips fall where they may. Let's just say that Bill Bradley is not one of those Democrats. "He's moving l ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 07:28:22 PDT 2006